Outdoor experiment on difference of skin temperature brought by color of cloth

Abstract

The author measured daytime variability of skin temperature of 9 polo shirts (same material and design, different colors) exposed in solar radiation at the NIES campus of Tsukuba in sunny days of August, 2011. Different colors brought the obvious differences of skin temperatures. The order of temperatures was similar with the opposite one of “brightness”, a character of color. However green sometimes showed higher than black. This product (U company) was processed UV cut coating on the surface and this was apparently strong in some dark color.